Profiles

Norma Best

In 1944, Britain appealed to her colonies for assistance …

Harold Sinson

Harold was 18 years of age when war as declared in 1939 …

Arthur Curling

In 1944, when the British government advertised in Jamaica for volunteers …

Cy Grant

Cy was born in British Guiana (Now Guyana), and was 22 years …

Euton Christian

Euton was born in Jamaica and volunteered to fight for Britain in 1944, at the …

Dudley Anderson

Dudley Anderson was born in Jamaica in 1925, and like many other young men in …

Al Gibson

Al was born in Cuba 1925, but grew up in Jamaica. He volunteered for service …

Nurvin McKoy

Nurvin was born in Belize City, British Honduras (now Belize) in 1926 …

Arthur Leigh

Arthur was 22 years old when he answered the call from the Royal Air Force to volunteer…

Lauren Phillpotts

Laurent Phillpotts was born in Jamaica in 1923. He had been a trainee linotype…

Connie Mark

Born and brought up in Kingston with her sister, mother and father, Connie Mark (nee McDonald) was …

George McPherson

George was 15 years old when his ex-serviceman friend Barry returned home and told …

Alford Gardner

Alford Gardner was born in 1926 in Jamaica. Before volunteering in 1947 for service the…

Nick Collins

Rudolph (Nick) Collins was nearly 17 years old when his brother’s best friend told him about life…

Steve Mitchell

Veron (Steve) Mitchell volunteered in 1944 to join the Royal Air Force. He was 19 years old and…

Maurice Hudson

Born in Cuba in 1919, Maurice spent his early years there at a time when schooling for Black children was rear…

Cecil Holness

Cecil Holness was born in Jamaica, and at the age of 22, volunteered to fight for Britain…

Tom Douce

Tom Douce was born in Jamaica. At the age of twenty two…

Allan Wilmot

Alan was born in Jamaica in 1925. After leaving college in 1941, he volunteered…